News and some B&H deals that came in the mail…UPDATED

I’m sure some of you might find these interesting, so I’ll pass them on very briefly. The ‘Shooting with the Legends’ series continues this weekend. I’ll also be at the Kuala Lumpur CEX show on Sunday 4th speaking for Olympus at 1230pm – please drop by and say hi if you’re in town. Have a good weekend everybody! MT

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i’ll check back in when the “Shooting with the Legends” series has run it’s course (BTW, you forgot the Olympus OM-1). This is ground I covered 30 years ago; no point in re-hashing it, from my point-of-view. Thanks for the tip at B&H, though.

Speaking of Olympus…thanks for the review of the new Pen 5 which is now being challenged by the new Panasonic mirror less camera… One cannot help but wonder what new model will be forthcoming in the next few months, and which model will suddenly render the camera that one has just purchased ” pseudo obsolete”.

Understanding that “deals” are part and parcel of the sales program at Nikon and Canon, one wonders if the day of reckoning is coming for high end DSLR cameras. With the evolution of mirror less cameras and ever more sophisticated phone camera with addition apps and interchangeable lenses, the market for high end DSLR must surely be past the peak. As you might recall, the CEO of Nikon has already stated that his company will have to examine its sale strategy in view of falling sales.

We are in a strange place at the moment: technology is both sufficient and simultaneously going obsolete faster than ever. I say stop looking at gear as an investment; buy what works for you now, shoot with it, and give up on reviews. Whatever you buy now will be enough for almost all purposes. What you buy next won’t get you much extra, and waiting/ agonizing over it will only take away effort from making pictures…

I’m pretty sure the end of the DSLR isn’t far away. I just wrote an article on that actually…to be published in a few weeks.

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